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...manufacturers to dump into the hands of busy practitioners any and all types of good and bad drugs and devices, and let them learn, at the expense and peril of their patients, whether they are any help. With over 200,000 physicians and their patients as potential prey, the result would be untold harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors, Drugs & Dollars | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...Compared Khrushchev, who recently claimed that the Soviet Union would outproduce the U.S. by 1970, to "the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin" before the prey is caught. "This tiger," said Kennedy, in a punning reference to Washington's nickname for him, "has other ideas." Putting aside his campaign complaints that the U.S. could not afford a growth rate slower than Russia's, the President argued that if both countries' present rates are maintained (3½% for the U.S., 6% for the Soviet Union), then "Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Edge of War | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...sight of a spear fisherman on the prowl in mask, wet suit, fins and Aqua-Lung is enough to convince most casual observers that the underwater sportsman is equipped to take unfair advantage of his peaceful prey. But U.S. Navy Mineman Third Class Scotty Slaughter, 24, is a skindiver with a difference. He hunts for danger: any size, shape or variety of shark. It seems unfair to Scotty that spearmen anxious to skewer a meal should be bothered by a fish with the nasty habit of fighting back. So the blond, blue-eyed waterbug from Clearwater, Fla., has embarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shark Killer | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...long-dreaded day of reckoning is still somewhere in the future. During the last decade, A.S.W. (antisubmarine warfare) has taken giant strides. Killing systems no longer rely on shortrange, slow-acting depth charges. Today the standard sub killer is the torpedo, lugged to the vicinity of its prey by an airplane, helicopter, rocket or another submarine. Once in the water it does not need to be aimed; it "homes" on its victim, following its evasive twisting far into the depths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New A.S.W. | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...nightfall their wired moth began to detect the ultrasonic cries of bats. From the traces on their oscillograph, the biologists could tell whether an invisible bat was approaching or flying away. Later, when Roeder and Treat turned on a powerful floodlight, they could watch the bats diving on their prey and hear, through the captive moth's ear, the bats' searching sonar beeps and their final triumphant buzz. Sometimes they saw free-flying moths take evasive action, but the motions of both hunter and hunted were too fast to follow with the naked human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sound & Survival | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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